They generally say that you should buy the best that you can and let some other poor sod pay for the build Buying a bike bit by bit can work out expensive, and thinking that a £500 bike willl just need £250 and be fine is optimistic to say the least. Paint and wheels can cost a lot whatever bike you...

Hi They always say to buy the best that you can, not be seduced by the idea of fixing it up- which always costs more than the more complete bike costs Depending on what your ideal bike is, and what extent your "restoration" is, it can get scarily expensive if you try to find a set of triumph bathtub...

You can convert 350 3ta's to 400cc (apparently!) and I believe that people use tiger cub Pistons ? Anybody know any more? Is it viable on a road bike? It seems to be a trials thing. What does it do? More torque? More speed? Standard cub or high compression Pistons? Just interested really but I do ha...

no idea but I would use a hand held "L" allen key if possible, so it's hard to strip it I also have the T shaped ones and sockets but take care on smaller allen. I just noticed in my T140 book that they suggest using a box/tube spanner for the spark plugs. Normally I use a 'proper" UJ type dedicated...